What is you least favorite woodworking task?

[Mark Woodmark]

What woodworking task is your least favorite? Mine is either finishing or assembly

[Jeff Monson]

sanding, sanding and sanding :cool:

[Aaron Wingert]

sanding, sanding and sanding :cool:

Nuff said. Amen.

[Kyle Iwamoto]

Glue ups. I suffer from "too much glue-itus".

[Steve Milito]

Cleaning the shop. :eek:

[Jim Terrill]

Sanding. Because I get it looking good enough to my eye, then go to finish and realize I should have spent more time sanding and have to go back and do it right.

[Rod Sheridan]

Resharpening the chisel I dropped on the way from the waterstone to the work bench..........Regards, Rod.

[Rick Fisher]

Cleaning up ..

[Jim Rimmer]

sanding, sanding and sanding :cool:
+1 - hate it.

[John Mark Lane]

From the topic, I immediately thought "glue-up". I got a chuckle to see I'm not the only one.

[Robert Reece]

Not so much of a "woodworking task", more like a "woodworking aspect" - hurting myself.

[Prashun Patel]

Sanding the rougher grits. I like the smoothness that comes after 150, but that 60-120 range is a bother, bother, bother!

[Paul Canaris]

Sanding - Kills my back standing for hours, also very boring:(

[Will Overton]

From the topic, I immediately thought "glue-up". I got a chuckle to see I'm not the only one.

I think you are far from alone on this one.

[John Pratt]

Loading up a project that will leave the shop for the last time. Even though my skills are ever evolving, the designing, building, and finishing of the project is what I love (even sanding doesn't bother me). LOML says women get Post Partum Depression (PPD), and I get Post Project Depression (PPD).

John

[glenn bradley]

I enjoy finishing but am just not real good at it so that's least favorite followed close behind by letting go of a piece once it is complete if it is going somewhere that I will most likely never see it again.

[Van Huskey]

sanding, sanding and sanding :cool:

Oddly enough I like to sand (well not enough to skip the drum and ROS and go straight to a hand sanding block straight from the planer). This is the point where I get to enjoy the wood for just being wood, no design to contemplate just some tree meat to watch (hopefully) jump up and grab me.


For me it is finishing. The stress of praying it all doesn't go off the cliff right here at the end. Along with te humility that comes from never being to match the awesome finishes I see some people get.

[Bill Huber]

I really like the design work, the cutting of parts and putting them all together.

Now if I could just stop there and not have to do the finishing I would really be happy. RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT MORE COATS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT MORE COATS and it just goes on from there.

[Mark Woodmark]

I really like the design work, the cutting of parts and putting them all together.

Now if I could just stop there and not have to do the finishing I would really be happy. RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT MORE COATS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT MORE COATS and it just goes on from there.

+1 to all that

[Brendan Plavis]

By far, it is a tie between clean up(sweaping and most certainly derusting....) sanding, and breathing all of those finish fumes.... those cannot be good for you.... :eek:

[Jeff Monson]

breathing all of those finish fumes.... those cannot be good for you.... :eek:


Its not good for you, and you should not be breathing them without a respirator.

[Dan Bowman]

Emptying the bag on my dust collector. Cough.